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By Angst Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Here I go complaining again... as usual. Nothing ever works out, nothing is ever good enough. It seems that everywhere I go, everything I see turns around love, marriage, sex, and kids. Just rub it in my face. While this is a time for me when I'm trying to come to terms with and accept that these will most likely never be a part of my life, everything around me just reminds me of them. I cry when I see a show about parenting. I cry when I hear a love song. I cry when I hear people having problems with their spouse. I cry all the time.

 

So maybe I'm looking too far ahead, maybe I'm making some negative predictions or some fortune telling or whatever, but this is my reality at the moment and everything around me just sinks the dagger further down in the wound. All my life, all I ever wanted was to just live a simple life: have a husband, a few kids, a dog, a house, a job... But as the days and months and years go by, I realise that this will probably never be my reality. I can't see myself ever having the patience to tolerate living with someone. I get so irritated, so angry. There's this whole side of me nobody, or at least very few people, know about, that I hate, that I despise. I could never trust myself to have a child. I would be too scared to neglect him, and even worse, be violent. If I can't control myself with a cat who sleeps 16 hours a day, what would it be like with a baby, or a child, or a teenager?

I went to see the dermatologist today. She wants to put me on Accutane and gave me this whole booklet to read. The main emphasis is the danger of this medication during pregnancy. Guess there's no danger for me. I hear about pregnancy all the time, see pregnant women everywhere, friends are having babies or have had them recently. There's baby-talk and back-to-school talk everywhere. I know I'm still young and things have plenty of time to change - but they've already had plenty of time.

The dermatology resident today asked me why I became borderline... I couldn't answer her question. How does one explain the cause of their BPD in a sentence or two? How do you explain BPD to anyone? How do you get people to understand the extent of the pain, the emptiness, the confusion, the constant struggle between your wise mind and your emotional mind, and the sheer torture that is a simple day? How do you get professionals to understand that reading a book won't change anything, or that it takes more than willpower. How do you explain what you don't even understand?

 

I don't know why I bother... I don't know why I'm still here...

 

Cry

A Confusing Life
8/29/07 9:35pm
 Hello  Bravo Raise The Roof 1  Heart Shell Crying 2  Road Rage Moodswings  Shy Whistler Blah The world is fill of emotions and they are not always good. You are a great person and someday you will find your place. The perfect person is not always right in front of you. It takes time. I though I had found my perfect person but he wasn't. He turn out to be a big jerk. God will reveal him to you just give him time. I will pray that God will hurry up and send you your soul mate just don't give up.Innocent
8/29/07 9:40pm
I don't particularly want God to send me a "soulmate" because if I do find someone I truly love, I would not want him to get hurt... and with me, that it what would end up happening. He would not deserve that and would be better off without me, with someone who is easier to deal with, who would respect him more, who would be able to show their love appropriately.
8/29/07 9:57pm
 Kitty 1 you still are a good person and I'm not giving up on you. So I will pray for hope and a friend that can help you though this. Cats are very forgiving. You don't have to worry if the cat felt he was in real danger he would leave. They can sense good in people.
8/30/07 1:26am
How old are you?  It won't get better if you don't help yourself...to a point you sound like me but I have a marriage and kids and oh boy it's tough.  That attitude won't change and you live with gilt that you can't live up to "their" expectations.  Get on some meds and get counceling.
8/30/07 2:15am

I am in counseling and I am on meds... have been for years, thank you very much. It's not like I'm not trying to help myself. I go to all my stupid appointments, I take my meds all the time, I take myself to the hospital, I do what I need to do. I've stayed in shelters and transition homes, I currently live in supervised housing, I've been on disability since I was 19, trying to help myself.

 

And it's not about living up to *their* expectations, it's about not trusting myself, not being proud of who I've become, who I've always been really, of my automatic reactions, it's being scared of what I'm capable of. There are already too many kids with rotten and screwed up lives, I don't need to create another one.

 

So sorry if you think my *attitude* won't get me very far, I guess this is just another thing to add onto the **** pile. Excuse me for having a disorder which means I don't react to or perceive things the way most people do, guess it's all my fault isn't it?

 

BTW I'm 24.

8/30/07 2:21am

Okay, sorry if my previous comment was rude, but I'm just really P.O.d right now and your comment wasn't really helpful. Thank you for the intention though if that is what you were trying to do. It's just that sometimes need understanding, especially from a place like this, rather than the "get a grip on yourself" we've hear a thousand times.

 

It won't all get better simply by taking meds and getting counseling...

It takes more than simple willpower...

This is not just a bump in the road...

8/30/07 11:59am
 Moodswings We all are having good days and bad days. I feel that if we knew the whole pictures of every one we all would just fall apart. But at the same time we can't just hold it in. That's why we come here and type what we feel and no one judges us. I hope you both can realize now important you are to everyone here as well. God bless you both and don't give in to the master depression anymore.

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By Angst— Last Modified: 09/04/10, First Published: 08/29/07